--- title: A pile-on is when many people in a group turn against one person; it… — The group chat that turns · tree and pragmatics description: A pile-on is when many people in a group turn against one person; it is bullying even if each only adds an emoji or leaves. Who acts: many people, person, each. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many people, person, each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:479-the-group-chat-that-turns.lesson:30 # text = A pile-on is when many people in a group turn against one person; it is bullying even if each only adds an emoji or leaves. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 479-the-group-chat-that-turns.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 4 on on SCONJ IN _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 13 against against ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 bullying bully VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 24 nsubj _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 emoji emoji NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | many people in a group | | | | | against one person; turn *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **bully** | present · progressive | person | | | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | each | a emoji | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emoji=Patient | | 4 | **leave** | present | each *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:479-the-group-chat-that-turns.lesson:30`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The group chat that turns, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/479-the-group-chat-that-turns/29/) - next →: [The group chat that turns, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/479-the-group-chat-that-turns/32/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/479-the-group-chat-that-turns/)